Download e-book for kindle: A Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal

Set in Czechoslovakia among the Forties and the Nineteen Nineties, Tomáš Zmeškal's stimulating novel specializes in one family's tragic tale of affection and the unstated. Josef meets his spouse, Kveta, sooner than the second one international struggle at a public lecture on Hittite tradition. Kveta chooses to marry Josef over their mutual pal Hynek, but if her husband is later arrested and imprisoned for an unnamed crime, Kveta supplies herself to Hynek in go back for support and suggestion. the writer explores the complexities of what's now not spoken, what can't be stated, the repercussions of silence after a trial, the absurdity of forgotten discomfort, and what it truly is to be an outsider.

In Zmeškal's story, advised no longer chronologically yet relatively as a mosaic of occasions, time progresses erratically and unpredictably, as does one's figuring out. The saga belongs to a specific relations, however it additionally exposes the bigger, ongoing fight of postcommunist japanese Europe to return to phrases with discomfort whilst catharsis is denied. Reporting from a clean, multicultural point of view, Zmeškal makes a welcome contribution to eu literature within the twenty-first century.

Dr. Pereira is an getting older, overweight
journalist who has did not notice
the menacing cloud of fascism over
Salazarist Portugal, until eventually in the future he
meets an aspiring younger author and
anti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism.

From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family members business--and her family—with senility, crafty, and a purse choked with explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who goals of remodeling a failing motor vehicle franchise into an empire—and himself into an angel—the Catchprices could be the so much spectacularly contentious relatives on account that Dostoevsky's Karamozovs.

"A excellent luck. . . . Duras is on the top of her powers. "—Edmund White

Available for the 1st time in English, Abahn Sabana David is a late-career masterpiece from considered one of France's maximum writers.

Late one night, David and Sabana—members of a communist group—arrive at a rustic residence the place they meet Abahn, the fellow they've been despatched to protect and finally kill for his perceived transgressions. A fourth guy arrives (also named Abahn), and through the evening those 4 characters talk about existential principles of figuring out, capitalism, violence, revolution, and canines, whereas a gun lurks within the heritage the whole time.

Suspenseful and thought-provoking, Duras's novel calls to brain the performs of Samuel Beckett within the approach it explores human life and discomfort within the complicated modern world.

Marguerite Duras wrote dozens of performs, movie scripts, and novels, together with The Ravishing of Lol Stein, the ocean Wall, and Hiroshima, Mon Amour. She's such a lot recognized for the sweetheart, which acquired the Goncourt Prize in 1984 and was once made right into a movie in 1992. this is often her 3rd e-book to be released by way of Open Letter.

Kazim Ali is a poet, essayist, and novelist, and has released a translation of Water's Footfall by way of Sohrab Sepehri as well as co-translating Duras's L'Amour. He teaches at Oberlin university and the college of Southern Maine.